Wishing There Would Be A Next Time, A Next Year

Once is not enough. It is always fun to try things out the second time around.

The first encounter, the first experience, the first moment. This sensation is an alien idea to us. We simply categorize it to either "good" or "bad". Whatever it is: food, pet, hobby, sport. A friend. A special person. A place. Whatever it may be, or whoever it may be, the fact remains that we can never tell the truth and we can never confirm this truth just by trying it just once.

The second time is an understanding. It is also having the right approach and the right attitude towards this second time. It is when we start to mature and grow into a sycamore tree. It is having the decision to choose whether there would be a next time. A next time of going to someplace majestic. Of being friends with an acquaintance, or being with the same set of friends again. Of keeping the same job. Of turning the key again to open yet another door in our lives.

The third and the succeeding days, thereafter, would be an epiphany of knowledge and wisdom. Look at our friends who have been with us, almost every day of our lives. Look at our family, who has been there no matter what had been happening to us. Look at all the people who have been reaching out, and keeping in touch with our human selves. They all chose to be part of our individual self, and we, just the same, have chosen them to be bookmarks of our personal chapters and appendices.

By appreciating the miracle of life, and the miracle of relationships, we all grow into something bigger and better. We can even learn to appreciate the simplest of things through the help of others. Because there are always those who have mastered the craft, and there are those who are still inching their way towards an ideal life. There are those without any idea at all, of his existence or of the beauty of his entirety, and that's for you to discover and for you to iron out.

There may never be a next time, so be thankful. For life. For love. And for everything else in between.

Happy new year!